Three years ago during a tour of a local warehouse, our host pointed to a bay of pallet rack and…
A Surprising Solution to the Warehouse Labor Crisis
This Friday I will be speaking at SELF18, a conference on the future of retail, put on by SDI Systems.…
Thank you, CICMHE and MHI
In his song, “Give them their roses,” Paul Thorn makes the point that we tend to express our thanks for…
Doing the Math on E-Commerce Growth
Subtitle: Why I’m Bullish on Material Handling Automation November and December in Louisville look like the corn harvest in Iowa—all…
This is what it’s all about
I am pleased to announce that last Wednesday, Parvaneh Jahani successfully defended her dissertation entitled, “Dynamic Warehouse Optimization Using Predictive…
Optimal Block Stacking
I am pleased to announce that Shahab Derhami, Jeff Smith and I have just had a manuscript accepted in International Journal…
The Age of Excess Capacity
For the past several months I have been thinking about trends in the logistics industry and in the economy as a…
GridStore paper award
I am happy to report that my colleagues Kai Furmans, Zäzilia Seibold, Onur Uludag and I recently received the 2015…
GridStore implemented
One of the most satisfying parts of this job is seeing others take your work and go further. In this…
Logistics Automation and Us
Several years ago I began telling my children that I thought the greatest challenge for their generation was sensibly integrating…
The Physical Internet as Platform Innovation
Some innovations are more than disruptive—they serve as platforms for other disruptions
A New Angle on Container Ports
Goran Ivanović recently published an article entitled, “A different kind of container yard” in the journal World Port Development. By “different kind,” he…
The social implications of crowdsourced delivery
Ben Montreuil recently tweeted a YouTube link to MyWays, DHL’s crowdsourced last mile delivery service in Stockholm. As I wrote…
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